Garry McCarthy

Garry McCarthy was selected as Chicago police superintendent in May 2011 by Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel. McCarthy, who was a finalist for superintendent in 2003, had been the top cop in Newark, N.J. McCarthy began his career in the New York Police Department, where he rose to prominence as a commander during the mid-1990s. He was hired to lead Newark’s department in 2006. McCarthy grew up in an Irish Catholic family, the son of an NYPD detective and brother of a state trooper, attended a Catholic high school in the city and joined the police force just months after graduating from a state university. He was born May 4, 1959.

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I'm sorry nine people were killed in South Carolina in a hate crime shooting, but where's the outrage that about 10 people die every weekend in Chicago from senseless shootings? Mayor Rahm Emanuel can't fix that. Chicago police Supt. Garry McCarthy...

Chicago police Superintendent Garry McCarthy has recommended that an officer be fired for lying about his role in an off-duty shooting nearly four years ago, a department source said Wednesday.
Officer Francisco Perez has been stripped of his police...

A Cook County judge on Wednesday barred cameras at the upcoming high-profile trial of Chicago police Cmdr. Glenn Evans on charges he shoved his service weapon down the throat of a suspect and threatened to kill him.
Judge Diane Cannon also scheduled a...

The mother of 13-month-old Dillan Harris clenched her fists and took a deep breath before stepping in front of a row of microphones at her lawyer's Near North Side offices Thursday.
"My son was innocent and he should not have died," Shatrelle...

Police in northwest Wisconsin arrested a suspect Wednesday afternoon in the July Fourth Chicago slaying of 7-year-old Amari Brown, police said.
Rasheed Martin, 20, was arrested at a home in Superior, Wis., about 460 miles northwest of Chicago near the...

The Chicago Police Department says it has posted officers at all military recruiting stations and installations in the city.
Anthony Guglielmi, a spokesman for police Superintendent Garry McCarthy, said the move was made Thursday out of an abundance of...

A Cook County judge said Monday she will rule later this month on whether TV cameras and still photographers will be allowed to cover the upcoming trial of a Chicago police commander on charges he shoved a gun into a suspect's throat and threatened to...

An attorney for the father of the 7-year-old boy who was fatally shot over the violent Fourth of July weekend downplayed the West Side man's alleged gang affiliation, asserting that police "make assumptions" on gang membership.
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Monday defended his policing strategy following a violent Independence Day weekend in Chicago, laying blame where he frequently does after shootings spike in the city: lax gun laws, amoral gang members and questionable values.
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Shootings over the Fourth of July weekend left 10 people dead and 55 others wounded, a toll lower than last year but one marked by an intense stretch of gun violence over eight hours on one of the nights.
Among those killed was 7-year-old Amari Brown,...

Chicago police Superintendent Garry McCarthy told reporters Sunday that a 7-year-old boy fatally shot on the West Side during the July Fourth holiday was "the unintended victim of a bullet meant for his father."
Antonio Brown, who police say is...

At first, Antonio Brown thought the shots that killed his 7-year-old son were just more fireworks. But then people started yelling, "They shot your son," and he saw Amari collapsed on the ground.
"He was just down. He wasn't crying, he was...

The city agency that investigates the most serious misconduct allegations against Chicago police officers has recommended for the first time in its nearly eight-year history that an officer be fired for shooting someone.
The Independent Police Review...

Donald Shelton, a retired cop, says he understands why a lot of police officers hate him for voting to parole a convicted cop killer from Chicago, but he still believes it was "the right thing to do."
"I understand why they hate me and...

A Cook County judge Thursday raised the possibility of allowing only audio coverage at the upcoming trial of a Chicago police commander on charges he shoved a gun into a suspect's throat and threatened to kill him.
Judge Diane Cannon tentatively set...

At least 42 people have been charged in their alleged roles in a $3 million-a-year narcotics operation on the West Side of Chicago, according to authorities.
James Triplett, 33, ran the heroin operation near Grenshaw Street and Independence Boulevard...

Few Chicago police officers who are accused of misconduct are found to be at fault, and when they are, most of them are cited for minor infractions that carry little if any punishment, a Tribune analysis of data found.
In fact, nearly three-fourths of...

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For those who...

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